- Contains 138 000 English-language titles and editions published in the 18th century.
- Significant titles published in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
- Includes several fields of science: History and Geography, Fine Arts, Social Sciences, Medicine, Science & Technology, Literature & Language, Religion & Philosophy and Law.

Authorised users

Authorized users are the Current, outsourced and retired members of the faculty, researchers, staff of the Licensee and students at the Licensee's institution.
Walk-in Users are persons who are permitted to access the Licensed Material within the physical premises of the institution.

Permitted use

The Licensee, Authorized Users and Walk-in Users may use the Licensed Material for Educational Purposes only.

Authorised and Walk-in Users may:
- Search, download, view, retrieve and display the Licensed Material
- Electronically save parts of the Licensed Material.
- Print a reasonable number of single copies of parts of the Licensed Material.
-. Make a reasonable number of photocopies of parts of the Licensed Material
- Distribute single copies of parts of the Licensed Material in print or electronic form to other Authorised and Walk-in-Users. This includes the right to distribute a copy for teaching purposes to each individual student Authorised User
- Extract and use excerpts from the Licensed Material for academic research, scholarship and other educational purposes
- use with appropriate credit, figures, tables and brief excerpts from the Licensed Material in the authorised user's own scientific, scholarly and educational works
- use the Licensed Material for Text and Data Mining purposes

Authorised Users may for Educational Purposes only:
- Incorporate parts of the Licensed Material in printed and electronic course packs, study packs, resource lists and in any other material (including but not limited to multi-media works) to be used in the course of instruction and/or in virtual and managed environments hosted on a Secure Network. Each item shall carry appropriate acknowledgement of the source, listing title and copyright owner. Course packs in non-electronic non-print perceptible form, such as Braille, may be offered to Authorised Users who are reading impaired.
- Distribute single copies of parts of the Licensed Material in print or electronic form to third party colleagues for the purposes of scientific research and communication or to be used for the basis of discussion groups.
- Publicly display or publicly perform parts of the Licensed Material as part of a presentation at a seminar, conference, or workshop, or other such similar activity.

Prohibited use

The Licensee, Authorized Users and Walk-In-Users may not:

- Remove, obscure or alter the authors' names or the Licensor's copyright notices or other means of identification or disclaimers as they appear in the Licensed Material.
- Make printed or electronic copies of multiple extracts of the Licensed Material, save as permitted elsewhere in this Agreement.
- Provide, by electronic means, to a user at another library or elsewhere, a retained electronic copy of any part of the Licensed Material, save as permitted elsewhere in this Agreement.
- Distribute, display or otherwise make available any part of the Licensed Material on any electronic network, including without limitation the Internet and the World Wide Web, other than a Secure Network and by Secure Authentication, save as permitted elsewhere in this Agreement.
- Permit anyone other than Authorised Users or Walk-In-Users to access or use the Licensed Material save as permitted elsewhere in this Agreement.
- Use the whole or any part of the Licensed Material for any Commercial Use or for any purpose other than Educational Purposes.
- Publish, distribute or make available the Licensed Material, works based on the Licensed Material or works which combine it with any other material, save as permitted in this Agreement.
- Alter, abridge, adapt or modify the Licensed Material, except to the extent necessary to make it perceptible on a computer screen, to Authorised and Walk-in Users save as permitted in this agreement. No alteration of the words or their order is permitted.

Remote access

Authorised Users are allowed remote access to the Licensed Material by logging into the Secure Network of a consortium member organisation.